Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of seed heads of Eragrostis Superba, a new lovegrass. It has no common name.TX-43-892.
Date: September 10, 1947
Creator: Reid, Louis E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of Lehmann's lovegrass. Note the tendency to [UNCLEAR] at the [UNCLEAR]. TX-43-891.
Date: September 10, 1947
Creator: Reid, Louis E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Crop-Rotated Field of Grain Sorghum

Photograph of an UNIDENTIFIED man standing in a crop-rotated field of grain sorghum. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Grain sorghum in a crop rotation program. Yield is expected to reach 80 to 90 bushels per year. Irrigated two times in summer of 1958. Sorghum to followed with alfalfa – 1959 & 1960.”
Date: September 10, 1958
Creator: Elder, A. T.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Irrigation on Site 28

Photograph of irrigation on Site 28, Cavalry Watershed. Water flowing from supply ditch through siphon tubes onto corrugated land. Land is being watered prior to seeding to rye and vetch. Two detention reservoirs are visible in background. Land was leveled woth a carry-all and floated with a land plane. Loyd Lundy is setting siphon tube. Dave Reimer, background, is checking distibution of water.
Date: September 10, 1959
Creator: Rowlett, Olen
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History